UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5078

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5078

    Published: 27 Oct 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-5078

    Summary:

    Details: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Blink's mailto: handling in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform command injection via a crafted HTML page, a similar issue to CVE-2004-0121. For example, characters such as * have an incorrect interaction with xdg-email in xdg-utils, and a space character can be used in front of a command-line argument.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5078, https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5078

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.14.04.1186

    Affected versions

    29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High